Bloomberg reports that the chemicals used at the Jiangmen farm are among
the most powerful antibiotics in the world, including colistin, used as a last resort for humans.
This year, a team led by Evan Snitkin, Ph.D., represents U-M with research aimed at outsmarting «superbug» bacteria that have out - evolved even
the most powerful antibiotics.
But in recent years, microbes have responded by developing resistance to many of
the most powerful antibiotics, threatening to undermine one of modern medicine's greatest achievements.
«Hospital patients get the broadest spectrum,
most powerful antibiotics,» he says, but they are also «in an environment where they get exposed to some of the nastiest, most drug - resistant pathogens.»
Not exact matches
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Antibiotics may be the
most powerful evolutionary force seen on this planet in billions of years,» says Tufts University microbiologist Stuart Levy, author of The
Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of
Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers.
Most urinary tract infections are easily cured with standard
antibiotics, but in some parts of the country as many as 20 % only respond to a combination of
powerful drugs.
The lead compound shows
powerful antibacterial activity against clinical isolates of diverse pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to
most antibiotics.
Microbes, individually, have been the source of some of the
most powerful tools that we have in society, such as yeast, for making bread and beer, and
antibiotics.
Oregano Oil is highly regarded as the
most powerful natural
antibiotic in the world, and has been well researched for its health benefits.